#medicare

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table. ↗

— Joe Biden

#got #hard #medicare #put #room

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#care #counsel #end-of-life #get #i

We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#medicare #need #old #people #than

The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#before #bush #bush administration #each #ended

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed. ↗

— John Shimkus

#always #before #best #bill #counties

Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need. ↗

— John Shimkus

#because #benefit #debate #especially #ever

I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#china #conservative #create #dollars #donald

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#allows #america #binding #compensation #court

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#change #contempt #continue #medicare #mislead

Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy. ↗

— Dan Bartlett

#al gore #bankruptcy #crossroads #gore #highway